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It meant Australia had to throw caution to the wind and mistakes were made from which New Zealand scored through Beauden Barrett to increase the scoreline.

Carter was man of the match.

Australia’s coach Michael Cheika said the better team had won, that New Zealand had just been too good. The seemingly unflappable All Black coach Steve Hansen gave praise to a ‘special’ team.

Overall it was a fantastic spectacle with five tries scored in the game.

The All Blacks have now won the trophy three times, in 1987, 2012 and 2015.

South Africa could perhaps take some comfort knowing they had New Zealand under real pressure last week. The flip side of that is that they’ll feel they could have beaten Australia.

Until Japan then in 2019. In the meantime rugby fans can enjoy a break, allow blood pressures to return to normal, and then look forward to Super Rugby in the new year – and of course the Rugby Championship.